“That any provision which may be adopted by such State government, in relation to the freed people of such State which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement with their present condition as a laboring, landless and homeless class, will not be objected to by the National Executive.” But unfortunately for both races in the South, Lincoln was assassinated. FOOTNOTES: [30:1] Elizabeth Collins, “Memories of the Southern States,” p. 46. [31:2] _The Frankfort_ (Ky.) _Commonwealth_, _The Charleston_ (S. C.) _Mercury_, _The Louisville_ (Ky.) _Democrat_ for 1863 and 1864, _The Daily News_ (Savannah), for 1862 and one Northern paper, _The Liberator_ (Boston) for 1863. The books of travel include Elizabeth Collins’ “Memories of the Southern States.” [31:3] Savannah _News_, June 9, 1862. [31:4] _The Liberator_, Feb. 22, 1863. [31:5] _Ibid._, June 26 and July 24, 1863. [32:6] Grimke, “Lynching of Negroes,” p. 29. [33:7] _I Timothy_, V, 8. [34:8] _Richmond Times_, Oct. 24, 1866. [34:9] _Ibid._, Sept. 11, 1866. [35:10] Newspapers examined for first period: _Richmond Times_, 1866; _Richmond Times_, _Baltimore American_, and the _New Orleans Times_, 1867; and the _Sun_ (Baltimore), _Leader_ (Baltimore) and Atlanta _News Era_, 1868; second, _Missouri Republican_, _Baltimore American_, 1873; _Richmond Enquirer_, _Baltimore American_, _St. Louis Republican_, 1874; _Baltimore American_, _St. Louis Republican_, _Richmond Enquirer_, and _New Orleans Republican_, 1875. I do not claim that I found every case of lynching in the South for either period, but as the same case would often be found in two or three different papers, I believe that I found practically all. [36:11] This lynching of the two Negroes by Negroes is the only case I found where Negroes alone did the lynching in cases of crime against the whites. Several times during the seventies, however, Negroes are found helping the whites to lynch some Negro guilty of crime. It shows, I believe, that in some places, at least, the Negroes were yet in accord with the Southern whites. [37:12] So far as the North and West are concerned, I simply happened to find such without any special search. I was searching carefully for lynchings in the South, etc. [38:13] In 1875, there was another interesting case in which both Negroes and whites, about equal in number, lynched a Negro for attempted rape of a white woman. [42:14] _St. Louis Republican_, Sept. 14, 1875. [43:15] _St. Louis Republican_, July 22, 1875. [43:16] _Missouri Republican_, Sept. 14, 1873. [45:17] Editorial, _St. Louis Republican_, Jan. 1, 1875.